Well then, the Lord himself will give you a sign: a young woman who is pregnant will have a son and will name him 'Immanuel.'

But he had no sexual relations with her before she gave birth to her son. And Joseph named him Jesus.

But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,

This very day in David's town your Savior was born---Christ the Lord!

And this is what will prove it to you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

But I am no longer a human being; I am a worm, despised and scorned by everyone!

It was the will of the LORD that his servant grow like a plant taking root in dry ground. He had no dignity or beauty to make us take notice of him. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing that would draw us to him.

We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him--- we ignored him as if he were nothing.

Jesus answered him, "Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest."

Isn't he the carpenter's son? Isn't Mary his mother, and aren't James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas his brothers?

The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father's only Son.

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.

He went over to him, poured oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them; then he put the man on his own animal and took him to an inn, where he took care of him.

At the place where they spent the night, one of them opened his sack to feed his donkey and found his money at the top of the sack.

When we set up camp on the way home, we opened our sacks, and each man found his money in the top of his sack---every bit of it. We have brought it back to you.

At a camping place on the way to Egypt, the LORD met Moses and tried to kill him.